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On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> All libraries should handle closed objects robustly for all methods.

I do not disagree with the "should" part of that.

I do not think the sentence is correct if it loses "should". The proposed alternative, ref counting, does block scope finalization without breaking any existing code.

Cheers,
V.